It's hypocritical because I was one of the biggest -ers when finance was mentioned in the past. But this is the new more inclusive Balladeer, who loves all sorts of game-related news! Plus, there's still the occasional good news story to do with sales that I like to see.

It's good to see 3DS hoovering up most of the sales. I remember reading a similar report just after release, too. 400,000 overally doesn't sound that huge in today's day and age though, especially at such a budget price.

If you read IGN's sales Generations did 1.8m and is a good sonic game, SEGA needed to continue to make Sonic continuing from that or any idea they have but they don't stick to anything and outsourcing to a team to do a quick TV tie-in doesn't help matters.

Mas, you're getting needlessly defensive. AC:Unity was seemingly okay once the problems were fixed (a 7/10 metascore is nothing to scoff at) plus the brand is still healthy - it sells. The difference between Sonic (which has a horrific metascore, if we're going by that) and Assassin's Creed is that Sonic has little to no brand worth anymore. The good games are far outweighed by the bad at this point - sure, Colours and Generations were pretty good, but the bad press has harmed the brand to the point where it won't sell solely on the Sonic name anymore.

My hope was always that SEGA were making another proper Sonic game and getting someone else to fart out a Sonic game so they'd have more development time. If that's not the case, I'll eat my hat, because the game Sonic Boom has not generated good publicity. I hear good things about the cartoon, though.

DIGRESSION ALERT: The guy who voices Sonic at the moment is also the narrator of Say Yes To The Dress, TLC's reality show about women trying on wedding dresses in a New York dress shop.

Well Nintendo still have one more Sonic game to come Zero, and I hope it's a least good.

@Jay I still think Sonic's name has a lot of weight take IGN they covered Sonic Runners coming to phones which will be crap mostly but they still covered it because it's Sonic.

I'm only getting defensive not about Boom but more of the comment that sonic games have been bad years and only took fans this long to figure it out. And the reason I brought but AC as that was the first game that came to mind that even with negative press which that had fans will still buy it.

I've even said the same about Halo if 5 is rubbish which might be from the BETA talk and gets a 6 from everyone, I will still buy it as it's Halo like I will still buy a bad Sonic which I've done as I'm a fan of Sonic. The reason I'm yet to but Boom as it's broken not that's bad, that's the difference I can play a bad game but a broken one that's different.

Smash U sold over 90k which brings it to 1.4m in the USA, Smash 3DS sold over 90k as well taking it's USA total to 2.1m.The pokemon's did 150k which takes them to 2.7m life to date.

On the Hardware side Wii U sales in January were up nearly 30% compared to the equivalent numbers from 2014, while software sales beat last year's figures by nearly 45%. Unofficial estimates peg the Wii U system sales for January, in that case, at over 60,000.

3DS is unknown but source point that it wasn't many to due to the impending New 3DS.

Sony

The PS4 went back to being the Number 1 selling platform in the USA after the Xbox One's 2 month reign which coincided with a holiday price drop.

A spokesman from Sony said this "Since launch in November 2013, 18.5 million PS4 units and 81.8 million software units have been sold through to consumers worldwide,"

Microsoft

The Xbox One had record January sales and was the console to have the most games sold on also there was a up lift off 22% more members on Xbox One's Xbox Live.

Genreal

In total, the entire industry was down five per cent compared to 2014, pulling in $625.7 million overall.

Dying Light was the best selling game, achieving the highest first month sales for a new franchise in the survival horror genre.

So even though Jan was down it still looks like all three manufacturers had a good Jan, Feb's will be a interesting read with the release of the New 3DS's, Zelda, MH for Nintendo and The Order for Sony.

Well Nintendo still have one more Sonic game to come Zero, and I hope it's a least good.

@Jay I still think Sonic's name has a lot of weight take IGN they covered Sonic Runners coming to phones which will be crap mostly but they still covered it because it's Sonic.

I'm only getting defensive not about Boom but more of the comment that sonic games have been bad years and only took fans this long to figure it out. And the reason I brought but AC as that was the first game that came to mind that even with negative press which that had fans will still buy it.

I've even said the same about Halo if 5 is rubbish which might be from the BETA talk and gets a 6 from everyone, I will still buy it as it's Halo like I will still buy a bad Sonic which I've done as I'm a fan of Sonic. The reason I'm yet to but Boom as it's broken not that's bad, that's the difference I can play a bad game but a broken one that's different.

I have mentioned this before, but Sonic 'jumped the shark' for me with Sonic Riders back on the Gamecube. I want to love Sonic, but it appears he holds little love for me. I find that deeply disappointing. However, I agree with your sentiment about buying a game even if it is generally considered average to poor. It is like when someone says to me, The Simpsons is shit now. I reply that even an average Simpsons episode is still better than most of what gets played on television. It shouldn't matter what others think when it comes to what you enjoy. I only wish that Nintendo bought out Sega and started making Sonic. At least Nintendo would actually care about the brand, as it seems Sega doesn't.